QUEER TOURS OF LONDON AND UNITY ARTS PRESENT

A BRAND NEW

QUEER TOUR OF STOKEY

AS PART OF HACKNEY COUNCIL'S 

Hackney Prides365 - LGBTQIA+ History Month

Join Queer Tours of London's DAN DE LA MOTTE and Unity Arts' LIL WARREN for this brand new tour of our very own Stoke ‘Stokey’ Newington, commissioned by Hackney Council as part of the borough's LGBTQIA History Month celebrations. 

Learn the significance of Stoke Newington Town Hall in relation to the ‘Pits and Perverts Support the Miners’ campaign in the 1980s, lesbian suffragettes associated with Stoke Newington Library, Stokey's contribution to alternative pop culture and new identities in the later part of the 20th Century around Northwold Road (such as Glam Rock star Marc Bolan) and comparisons between the now lost and thankfully still thriving lesbian spaces such as Blush Bar and Vogue Fabrics. Discover the legendary residents of Abney Park Cemetery (location for Amy Winehouse's Back to Black video), including pioneering drag kings and the doyennes of Music Hall, and the all-important difference between cottaging and cruising…

This new tour will be created following a series of FREE workshops, tours and research (register below) with Unity Arts and community participants.

MEETING POINT For Tours: Stoke Newington Town Hall

TIME: Tours start at 2pm. Workshop Times Vary.

Dan de la Motte

Lil Warren

Queer Tours of London

Unity Arts

Hackney Council